What are the early symptoms of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a very serious mental illness. Patients with this disease are generally conscious and have normal intelligence, but some patients will experience cognitive impairment during the course of the disease. The disease is prone to recurrence or worsening, and some patients may develop mental disability. These patients can be treated and cured. Be sure to maintain an optimistic attitude. Early symptoms include insomnia. Want to know more about the early symptoms of schizophrenia?

Early symptoms of schizophrenia

1. Sleep changes

Gradually or suddenly it becomes difficult to fall asleep, you wake up easily or have a shallow sleep, you have nightmares all night, or you sleep too much.

2. Emotional changes

The emotions become cold and the enthusiasm is lost. The person becomes indifferent to relatives, lacks the proper emotional exchanges and becomes alienated from friends. The person becomes uninterested in things around him or her, loses temper over trivial matters, becomes sad or happy for no reason, etc.

3. Abnormal behavior

The behavior gradually becomes strange, secretive or incomprehensible, the person likes to be alone, uncomfortably pursues the opposite sex, is shameless, talks and laughs to himself, lives a lazy life, is dazed, sleeps with his head covered, wanders outside, and does not return home at night.

4. Sensitive and suspicious

He is extremely sensitive to everything and associates some ordinary things around him with himself, thinking that they are directed against him. If others are talking, he thinks they are talking about him; if others occasionally glance at him, he thinks they have bad intentions. Some even believe that the content of radio, television and newspapers is all related to them, and they observe other people's words and expressions and pay attention to their every move. Some believe that someone is trying to harm them, and they dare not drink water, eat or sleep. Some believe that their lovers are unfaithful to them and stalk them.

5. Personality Changes

People who were lively, cheerful and hospitable have become silent and sit alone as if thinking about problems, and do not interact with others; people who have always been neat and tidy have become unkempt, lazy, lax in discipline, and lack concentration in doing things; people who used to follow the rules have become often late, leave early, absent from work without reason, work carelessly, and do not care about criticism; people who were thrifty have become wasteful and no longer interested in things that they used to be interested in, etc.

6. Abnormal language expression

Instead of having few topics to talk about, using simple sentences and monotonous content, the content of the conversation lacks a focus or some irrelevant content is said during the conversation, making it difficult for people to understand, making the conversation feel laborious or inexplicable, or talking to oneself and repeating the same content over and over again.

7. Disconnect from reality

Indulge in fantasy and daydream. Hallucinations or delusions may occur.